Well, too late here in Oxfordshire: this Iris, with its ugly unspellable name, is usually known as Algerian Iris, or Winter Iris, for the obvious reason that it flowers from now, mid-late November, right through until early spring, sometimes even as late as March.
Last year, I wrote about being just barely in time to give the foliage the late-season chop, in December, but that it was a fiddly job to avoid the flowering shoots, and that I advised the garden owner to cut them right back in October.
This year - in the same garden - I am pleased to report that I did manage to carry out that chop, in late September: ...
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